http://www.who.int/rpc/meetings/en/ChaamDoc.pdf

This document is a synthesis of views expressed by participants during discussions over the four-day period of the meeting. The discussions provided a definition for the health research system, a conceptual map for describing it, and strategies and actions that might strengthen health research systems. This document is an initial step towards fulfilling ICRHD recommendations, and we hope that the ideas in this document will help countries to define their health research systems. It may provide the impetus to strengthen them as further initiatives are developed, such as the ongoing WHO initiatives to develop tools to assess the performance of health research systems.(AU)